Salt Lake County Library Reader's Choice

ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY GLUE GUN by Lois Winston

2012-01-01T00:26:00.000-07:00

Anastasia Pollack thinks she has hit bottom when she is left with a dead husband, his $50,000 gambling debt, two teenage sons and a nasty Communist mother-in law. When a coworker is found dead in her office chair, she realizes it can get worse.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author's website
Book Trailer

BEFORE EVER AFTER by Samantha Sotto

2012-01-01T00:25:00.000-07:00

Three years after her husband Max’s death, a young man shows up at Shelly’s door and says that he is Max’s grandson. He also claims that Max is alive and well and they need to go find him.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

BLIND YOUR PONIES by Stanley Gordon West

2012-01-01T00:24:00.000-07:00

Sam Pickett’s Willow Creek, Montana high school basketball team hasn’t won a game in 5 seasons. Can a very tall and clumsy Norwegian exchange student and a homesick transplant from Minnesota turn the team around?

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Goodreads Page
Author Information

CLOUD ROADS by Martha Wells

2012-01-01T00:23:00.000-07:00

Thinking he was the last of his kind, Moon has spent his life living among other species and hiding what he is, a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. When he is once again cast out by an adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself who pulls him into a world of intrigue and a fight for his species survival.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Biography
Book Review
Book Review

THE DANGEROUS EDGE OF THINGS by Tina Whittle

2012-01-01T00:22:00.000-07:00

While trying to run her newly inherited Confederate-themed gun shop, Tia Randolph's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body in her brother's driveway.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author’s Facebook Page

DOC by Mary Doria Russell

2012-01-01T00:21:00.000-07:00

Fact and mythmaking converge as John Henry Holliday (Doc) comes alive in Dodge City. Readers can almost smell the sawdust and hear the tinkling of saloon pianos. A historical novel filled with action, humor and philosophy.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author’s Facebook Page
Discussion Questions

DRAGON BOUND by Thea Harrison

2012-01-01T00:20:00.000-07:00

Pia Giovanni, half human and half wyr, is blackmailed into stealing a coin from the hoard of a dragon, Dragos Cuelebre. After being caught in the act, Dragos spares her life but claims her as his own.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Arthur’s website

THE DRY GRASS OF AUGUST by Anna Jean Mayhew

2012-01-01T00:19:00.000-07:00

In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie travels in the South with her family and their black maid Mary Luther. Mary has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect. Jubie is unprepared for the racial tension and tragedy they encounter.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Goodreads page
Book Review

A FIERCE RADIANCE by Lauren Belfer

2012-01-01T00:18:00.000-07:00

In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, talented "Life" magazine reporter Clara Shipley finds herself on top of one of the nation's most important stories--the race to discover penicillin at the Rockefeller Institute. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put herself at the center of danger to find a killer--no matter what price she may have to pay.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Facebook
Book Review

FRIENDSHIP BREAD by Darien Gee

2012-01-01T00:17:00.000-07:00

This is a heartwarming story about the power of giving. An anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread given to a grieving mother leads to new friendships and hope.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Facebook Page
Friendship Bread Recipes

THE INFORMATIONIST by Taylor Stevens

2012-01-01T00:16:00.000-07:00

Vanessa Munroe, the daughter of American missionaries in Cameroon, has forged a new life as an “informationist,” a person who gathers information for corporations. She is intrigued when offered a large check by an American oilman to find his daughter, who went missing in Africa.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author’s Facebook Page

INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS by Imogen Robertson

2012-01-01T00:15:00.000-07:00

Discovering a dead neighbor from a menacing local estate, the unconventional Mrs. Westerman of 1780 Sussex enlists a reclusive local anatomist to uncover the family's secrets, which include ties to the American Revolution and links to the murder of a music shop owner.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author’s Facebook page
NY Times book review

THE KITCHEN DAUGHTER by Jael McHenry

2012-01-01T00:14:00.000-07:00

After the unexpected death of her parents, shy and sheltered Ginny Selvaggio, a young woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, seeks comfort in family recipes. But as she cooks the recipes, a ghost appears with a cryptic warning—before vanishing like steam from a cooling dish.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Facebook Page
Asperger’s Disorder website

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

2012-01-01T00:13:00.000-07:00

A former foster child ends up homeless when she turns eighteen but finds redemption and solace in her love of flowers and their meanings.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Facebook Page
New York Times Book Review
School Library Journal Book Reivew

LEARNING TO SWIM by Sara J. Henry

2012-01-01T00:12:00.000-07:00

Witnessing a small boy being thrown from a passing ferry into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Blog
Author’s Twitter Page
Author Biography
Author Interview
Book Review
Book Review

LOST IN SHANGRI-LA by Mitchell Zuckoff

2012-01-01T00:11:00.000-07:00

Near the end of WWII, a plane carrying members of the US military, including Women’s Army Corps members, crashed in a part of the New Guinea jungle known for its cannibalistic tribes. There were only three survivors. This is the story of their survival and the stunning efforts undertaken to save them.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Facebook Page
Discussion Questions

MY YEAR WITH ELEANOR by Noelle Hancock

2012-01-01T00:10:00.000-07:00

“Do one new thing every day that scares you.”
This Eleanor Roosevelt quote written on a coffeehouse chalkboard propels newly unemployed Noelle Hancock into a year-long adventure, challenging her self-doubts and fears. Poignant, lighthearted, and very funny.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Book Trailer
Author’s Blog
Book Review

NO BIKING IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A HELMET by Melissa Fay Greene

2012-01-01T00:09:00.000-07:00

Melissa Fay Greene and her husband have 4 children when they decide to adopt one more. One more becomes 9 kids total. This is the story of their adventure told with humor, honesty and heart. A celebration of parenthood.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
NPR Review
Adoption Website

PIONEER WOMAN: BLACK HEELS TO TRACTOR WHEELS—A LOVE STORY by Ree Drummond

2012-01-01T00:08:00.000-07:00

The true account of how Ree Drummond, a city girl, met and married her “Marlboro Man.”

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

Author’s Facebook Page
New Yorker article

THE SILENT LAND by Graham Joyce

2012-01-01T00:07:00.000-07:00

Buried under a flash avalanche while skiing, young married Jake and Zoe miraculously dig their way out only to discover themselves alone in an eerily silent, evacuated region, and are unable to contact the outside world.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Arthur’s Website
Book Review
Author Interview

SOUTH OF SUPERIOR by Ellen Airgood

2012-01-01T00:06:00.000-07:00

Moving to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to care for an aging family friend, Madeline Stone becomes involved in the lives of the small community and two octogenarian sisters who teach her valuable lessons about love and goodwill.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Discussion Questions
Author’s Facebook Page

THE TRINITY SIX by Charles Cumming

2012-01-01T00:05:00.000-07:00

Dr. Sam Gaddis’s life and career has not been going so well. When an old friend shares with him staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring – a man who has evaded detection for his entire life – Sam’s life takes a turn, maybe for the worst.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

TURN OF MIND by Alice LaPlante

2012-01-01T00:04:00.000-07:00

Jennifer White, a respected retired hand surgeon suffering from Alzheimer’s, is the chief suspect in her best friend’s murder.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

On The Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
Bookreporter Interview
You Tube Interview
BookBrowse Reading Guide
Reading Group Choices
Publisher Reading Guide

UNDER FISHBONE CLOUDS by Sam Meekings

2012-01-01T00:03:00.000-07:00

A universal love story, within a panorama of Chinese myth, culture and history.
When the Jade Emperor challenges the Kitchen God to fathom the workings of the human heart, the Kitchen God follows the lives of Jinyi and his wife, Yuying, from the days of their early love into their old age.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Book Review
Author Interview
Author Biography
Author’s Facebook Page

UNDER WRAPS by Hannah Jayne

2012-01-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

Immune to magic, Sophie Lawson, an agent with the Underworld Detection Agency, thinks she knows everything there is to know about the undead and paranormal; but a series of grisly murders forces her to rely on an unknown partner, Parker Hayes.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

VACLAV & LENA by Haley Tanner

2012-01-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

A coming-of-age story about two loners growing up in a Russian immigrant community, sharing secrets, and enduring love.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author Interview
On You Tube
Author’s Facebook Page

And the Winner Is!

2011-11-08T09:54:00.006-07:00

From the July - October 2011 Reader's Choice:

In the 1980’s Kimberly Chang, and her mother, leave Hong Kong, to immigrate to Brooklyn, New York. Living in poverty in Brooklyn, Kimberly shifts between her day mode, as an exceptional school girl, and her night work in a Chinatown sweatshop and discovers she must constantly translate between languages, lifestyles and cultures, as she faces the confusing challenges of becoming an American girl.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

THE BELLS by Richard Harvell

2011-07-01T00:29:00.000-06:00

“I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father.” In 18th century Switzerland, illegitimate youth Moses Froben, born to a deaf mother and Catholic priest father, is cast out by his self-serving father and seeks refuge in the historic Abbey of St. Gall. Through his singing, he discovers his purpose in life and the love of his life.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s page
Trailer
NPR Interview
Music Playlist from the novel
Author email

BLISS, REMEMBERED by Frank Deford

2011-07-01T00:28:00.000-06:00

Sydney Stringfellow recounts the experiences she had as a swimmer at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where she had an unforgettable love affair with the son of a Nazi diplomat.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author's Wikipedia Article

CRASHERS by Dana Haynes

2011-07-01T00:27:00.000-06:00

A crack team of the National Transportation Board (known as Crashers) have only a few days to figure out what and who brought down Cascade Air Flight 818, before more planes will fall from the sky.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Page
Book Review
Good Reads Group Discussion
Author’s Facebook Page
Book Trailer
Author Interview

CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER by Tom Franklin

2011-07-01T00:26:00.000-06:00

African-American Constable Silas Jones must confront his white former friend Larry Ott, who has lived under suspicion for twenty years since a girl disappeared while on a date with him. When another girl disappears, Larry is blamed once again.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author Biography
Author Interview
Author Interview
YouTube Interview
Discussion Questions

DON’T KILL THE MESSENGER by Eileen Rendahl

2011-07-01T00:25:00.001-06:00

Melina Markowitz, a paranormal Messenger to supernatural creatures, loses an envelope containing talismans to ninjas, and works with a handsome ER doctor and vampire to recover the missing items before they can spark a gang war.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author Biography
Author’s Website

FARM FRESH MURDER by Paige Shelton

2011-07-01T00:24:00.000-06:00

When Becca Robins’ friend, Abner is suspected of killing a local peach grower at Bailey’s Farmer’s Market, Becca goes from making jams to being in one when she tries to prove his innocence. A cozy mystery with great characters set in rural South Carolina.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Blog
Book Review
Recipes

FINDERS KEEPERS by Craig Childs

2011-07-01T00:23:00.000-06:00

To whom does the past belong? Written in his trademark lyrical style, this book carries readers directly into the author’s adventures and discoveries, lifting the curtain on the ethical dilemmas and dark side of archaeology.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author Biography
Author’s Website
Book Review
Anasazi field visit- audio recording

FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT by Darynda Jones

2011-07-01T00:22:00.001-06:00

Charley Davidson—grim reaper and part-time private investigator--- begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious entity that has been following her throughout her life.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s page
Short Story online

THE GENTLEMAN POET: A Novel of Love, Danger and Shakespeare by Kathryn Johnson

2011-07-01T00:21:00.000-06:00

Elizabeth Person has a life changing adventure when her ship bound for Jamestown is shipwrecked on an island in Bermuda where she befriends a mysterious poet named William and a very attractive ships cook.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author Page
Author interview
Author Q&A
Author Essay
Excerpt, background information, reading guide questions
Reading Guide

GIRL IN TRANSLATION by Jean Kwok

2011-07-01T00:20:00.001-06:00

THE HOLY THIEF by William Ryan

2011-07-01T00:19:00.000-06:00

In a deconsecrated church in Moscow, 1936, a young woman is found dead. Captain Alexei Korolev is asked to investigate and discovers the victim to be an American citizen. When Stalin’s NKVD becomes involved, every step is under close scrutiny, and one false move could mean exile to the frozen camps of the far north.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Newspaper Article
USA Today
Stalin’s Russia

THE LADY’S SLIPPER by Deborah Swift

2011-07-01T00:18:00.000-06:00

Set in England during the first months of the Restoration, Swift creates an intriguing character in Alice, who, as a result of her theft of a rare orchid, inadvertently sets in motion events that spiral out of control, including murder and a threat on her own life.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s page
Author Interview
Goodreads Page

LIAR, LIAR by K. J. Larsen

2011-07-01T00:17:00.000-06:00

Private Investigator Cat DeLuca and her Pants on Fire Detective Agency have a reputation for catching cheaters. When reporter Rita Polansky masquerades as a betrayed wife and hires Cat to follow Chance Savino, Cat ends up in the hospital, and Rita is found dead with a knife in her chest.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Facebook Page
Author Interview

MOTHERS & OTHER LIARS by Amy Bourret

2011-07-01T00:16:00.001-06:00

Ruby never dreamed that she had done anything wrong by rescuing Lark, an abandoned infant, but now she is forced to make a decision that will change her life, and Lark's, forever.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s page
Author interview
Reading Guide

ON THE EDGE OF SURVIVAL: A SHIPWRECK, A RAGING STORM, AND THE HARROWING ALASKAN RESCUE THAT BECAME A LEGEND by Spike Walker

2011-07-01T00:15:00.000-06:00

An on-the-edge-of-your-seat account of the heroic rescue of a cargo ship’s crew members after it ran aground off the coast of Alaska during a raging storm.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s page
YouTube interview

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE by Ann Weisgarber

2011-07-01T00:14:00.000-06:00

Homesteader Rachel Dupree is a strong woman torn between her love for her husband, and the best interest for her children. Her husband Isaac, a former Buffalo soldier, is driven to prove himself a successful rancher in the harsh Badlands country. As they face drought, dwindling supplies, and death, Rachel decides to take her fate into her own hands.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author Webpage
Idea behind the Book
Reading Guide

POWER DOWN by Ben Coes

2011-07-01T00:13:00.000-06:00

When terrorists destroy a major North American hydroelectric dam and a huge off-shore oil field, former Army ranger and Delta Dewey Andreas draws on his extensive background to foil the efforts of a corrupt agent to trigger a second set of attacks.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author’s Facebook Page
YouTube Interview with Ben Coes & Mitt Romney

RED STATION by Adrian Magson

2011-07-01T00:12:00.001-06:00

After a botched drug bust, MI5 officer, Harry Tate is dispatched to “Red Station,” a remote outpost in the Balkans, where he notices very strange things are going on.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author's Website
Author Interview
Author's Facebook Page
Author's e-mail

RISE AGAIN by Ben Tripp

2011-07-01T00:11:00.000-06:00

Even though Sheriff Danielle Adelman, a veteran with her own troubles, has to deal with masses of people suddenly dying, reanimating and then acting like zombies, she is still very worried about her little sister, who ran away just before the horror began.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview

RUSSIAN WINTER by Daphne Kalotay

2011-07-01T00:10:00.001-06:00

Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Facebook Page
Author Interview
Author Interview
Reading Guide
Stalin’s Russia

SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY by Mary Kowal

2011-07-01T00:09:00.000-06:00

At 28, Jane Ellsworth, knows that her chances of marrying are slim and she spends her time developing her glamour into an art form. This does not prevent her from envying her younger sister when she is being wooed by suitors.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author's Page
Review with Video Trailer

THE SHADOW WAR by Glen Allen

2011-07-01T00:08:00.001-06:00

Summoned to a Massachusetts think tank to assist his war-game theorist friend, colonial historian Benjamin Wainwright is shocked by his friend's murder and teams up with a Russian cultural attaché to uncover a sinister conspiracy.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Blog
Book Review
Author’s Goodreads Page

THE STORMCHASERS by Jenna Blum

2011-07-01T00:07:00.000-06:00

Twins Karena and Charles share an unbreakable bond—and a devastating secret. The two lose track of each other, but when Karena receives a distressing phone message about Charles, she ventures into the eye of the story – literally – to find him.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Biography
Author’s Interview
Book Trailer
Book Review
Discussion Questions

SWEET MISFORTUNE by Kevin Milne

2011-07-01T00:06:00.000-06:00

Sweet Misfortune is a bitter sweet love story of heartache, regrets, and happiness. After chocolatier, Sophie Jones’s fiancé breaks up with her, Sophie turns her bad memories into her signature cookie, the Misfortune Cookie. When Grant returns and wants a second chance the cynical Sophie asks him to place an ad in the Seattle Times seeking true and lasting happiness before she’ll go on one last date with him.

Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Blog
Author Inteview
Book Review
Fortune Cookie History
How to Make a Fortune Cookie

THINK OF A NUMBER by John Verdon

2011-07-01T00:05:00.000-06:00

When a friend receives a strange, seemingly clairvoyant letter, former homicide investigator Dave Gurney is lured in to solve the puzzle, which quickly turns into a chase to find a serial killer.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Book Review
Book Trailer

THE TOWER, THE ZOO, AND THE TORTOISE by Julia Stuart

2011-07-01T00:04:00.000-06:00

Beefeater, Balthazar Jones, his wife and their 181-year-old pet tortoise live in the infamous Tower of London. He spends much of his day answering tourist’s questions about historic methods of torture, famous executions, and the whereabouts of the lavatories. Things take a hilarious turn when Balthazar is appointed overseer of the Tower’s newly acquired menagerie of exotic animals, given to the queen by foreign dignitaries.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author Bio
Author Interview
Reading Guide

THE VANISHING OF KATHARINA LINDEN by Helen Grant

2011-07-01T00:03:00.000-06:00

Pia, a young German girl, is determined to uncover the secret of the recent disappearance of children in her small town. Is there a connection with unsolved disappearances from long ago? A haunting and gripping story with an atmosphere reminiscent of Grimm’s fairy tales set in modern day Germany.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author website
Author interview
Author blog
Goodreads discussion

THE WIDOWER’S TALE by Julia Glass

2011-07-01T00:02:00.000-06:00

Retired 70-year-old Percy Darling finds his quiet life upended when he agrees to allow a preschool to remodel and move into his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author interview
Author interview
Barnes and Noble interview and bio
Q & A
Reading questions
Book review summary and reading guide
Video review
Author’s Facebook Page
National Book Festival Talk
National Book Festival Reflections
Wikipedia article

THE WINTER SEA by Susanna Kearsley

2011-07-01T00:01:00.000-06:00

Carrie McClelland is writing a bestselling novel about the Jacobite fleet that nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. But she discovers that her novel is more fact than fiction and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

Author Website
Author Interview
Youtube Interview
Goodreads Review and Discussion
Book Trailer
Historical Book Review

And the winner is!

2011-05-23T18:34:00.009-06:00

From the January - April 2011 Reader's Choice:

Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.

Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook
Place Hold on eBook

THE ARK by Boyd Morrison

2011-01-01T02:15:00.001-07:00

Archaeologist Dilara Kenner and former combat engineer Tyler Locke realize that they have just seven days to find the remains of Noah's Ark before shadowy agents use its secret to wipe out civilization.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interviews
Author biography
Book’s website
Discussion Questions/Reading guides
Other intersting sites:

Noah’s Ark site

BLONDE BOMBSHELL by Tom Holt

2011-01-01T02:10:00.000-07:00

Disgruntled canine aliens from the planet Ostar, send a bomb to destroy earth for sending its music across the universe. Holt’s sci-fi implausibly riveting story is hilarious and thoughtful, full of puns, incredible situations and insights into the universe.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Book Review
Book’s website
Author biography

THE BOOK OF SPIES by Gayle Lynds

2011-01-01T02:05:00.002-07:00

After being imprisoned for the vehicular manslaughter of her husband, rare book expert Eva Blake gets a chance at early release if she helps find a cache of books believed to be lost, but when she sights her husband alive and well, she must join an ex-intelligence agent to seek the truth.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interview
Facebook page

BULLETPROOF MASCARA by Bethany Maines

2011-01-01T02:00:00.002-07:00

In this high-gloss, action-packed thriller, Nikki Lanier takes a job as a door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman, only to discover that the cosmetics company she works for is actually an intelligence agency that protects women by developing weapons that look like makeup.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eAudiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interview

A CAPTAIN’S DUTY: SOMALI PIRATES, NAVY SEALS AND DANGEROUS DAYS AT SEA by Richard Phillips

2011-01-01T01:50:00.002-07:00

The gripping true account of Captain Richard Phillips’ ordeal and dramatic rescue when he was taken hostage from his cargo ship by Somali pirates.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook
Place Hold on eBook

Read-a-Likes

New York Times Newspaper article

THE COOKBOOK COLLECTOR by Allegra Goodman

2011-01-01T01:45:00.001-07:00

The author describes her book in an interview at PowellsBooks.Blog: “a novel about two sisters: pragmatic Emily, the CEO of a successful Silicon Valley start-up, and romantic Jess, who works for an antiquarian bookseller named George. Set during the dot-com boom and bust, the book is about hunger: for money, for material things, for food, for fame, for knowledge, for companionship, for love.”
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Bookbrowse information
NY Times Podcast
Bookreporter Interview
New Yorker Interview
Discussion Questions/Reading Guides
You can also follow Allegra Goodman on Facebook

THE COUNCIL OF DADS: MY DAUGHTERS, MY ILLNESS AND THE MEN WHO COULD BE ME by Bruce Feiler

2011-01-01T01:40:00.001-07:00

After being diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler enlisted the aid of six men from key stages in his life, asking this "Council of Dads" to be present at all passages in his daughters' lives, should he not survive, and offers lessons he learned from these six men.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Newspaper article
Other interesting sites:
Council of Dads

EYE OF THE RED TSAR by Sam Eastland

2011-01-01T01:35:00.001-07:00

Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - is the favorite detective of the Tsar Nicholas Romanov. Now, a decade later, after being sent to the Siberian gulag, he is summoned by Stalin to investigate who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar’s treasure.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interviews
Author biography
Discussion questions/Reader’s guide

HAZARD by Gardiner Harris

2011-01-01T01:30:00.001-07:00

Down-trodden mine inspector Will Murphy investigates a deadly accident in the Kentucky coal mine that his brother is poised to inherit, in a town where everyone is protecting a secret Will might not want to uncover.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author biography
Book Review
Readers’ comments
Other interesting sites:
History of Coal Mining in Kentucky

HOW HIGH THE MOON by Sandra Kring

2011-01-01T01:25:00.001-07:00

Isabella “Teaspoon” Marlene has been a trial ever since her mother dumped her with an old boyfriend, Teddy, and ran off to Hollywood. Teaspoon wants to be better for Teddy, and agrees to take part in a “Sunshine Sister” mentorship program and is paired up with perfect Brenda Bloom.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Author Biography
Reading Group Guide

THE INSIDER by Reece Hirsch

2011-01-01T01:20:00.000-07:00

While leading negotiations in a merger transaction for a new client, corporate attorney Will Connelly stumbles upon a government conspiracy--a discovery that makes him the target of an SEC insider-trading investigation, a suspect in a murder and a pawn in a deadly game involving the Russian mafia and a terrorist plot.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Facebook Page
Author Biography

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer

2011-01-01T01:15:00.001-07:00

Set in Budapest and Paris, this is a story of a love tested by disaster, of brothers whose bonds cannot be broken, of a family shattered and remade in history’s darkest hour, and the dangerous power of art in a time of war.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interview
Author biography
Facebook page
Discussion questions/Reading guides

MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR by David Dosa

2011-01-01T01:10:00.000-07:00

Oscar is no ordinary cat. Usually he is very aloof to the people in the nursing home, but he maintains a close watch on those about to die. This is the true story of an amazing animal which touches everyone and teaches about death, dying, family love and companionship.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author biography
Discussion questions/Reading guides
You Tube videos of Oscar
Author Interview
Other interesting sites:
Can animals predict death
Therapy dogs bring comfort to dying patients
Magazine article

MISS YOU MOST OF ALL by Elizabeth Bass

2011-01-01T01:05:00.001-07:00

After her estranged stepsister, Heidi, returns to the family farm that she and her sister run as a tourist destination, Rue Anderson hopes that Heidi will find a safe place there, Her sister, Laura, is not so sure, and soon devastating news shakes the foundation of their tenuous sisterhood.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Facebook Page
Discussion Questions

MR. ROSENBLUM DREAMS IN ENGLISH by Natasha Solomons

2011-01-01T01:00:00.000-07:00

After Jack and Sadie Rosenblum and their baby daughter escape Berlin at the beginning of World War II, they settle in England where they are given a pamphlet with specific instructions for assimilating, which Jack follows explicitly until he discovers that he is barred from joining a golf club, after which he hatches a plan to start his own.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Blog
Author’s Twitter
Reading Group Guide

ONCE A SPY by Keith Thomson

2011-01-01T00:55:00.001-07:00

Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him, until the bullets start to fly.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

THE POACHER’S SON by Paul Doiron

2011-01-01T00:50:00.000-07:00

After his hard-drinking poacher father becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop, Mike Bowditch, with the help of a retired pilot, journeys deep into the Maine wilderness to find his fugitive kin--and the real killer.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s website
Author interviews
Facebook page/blog
Book reviews
Goodreads discussion blog
Other interesting sites:
Maine Forest Service

THE REBELLION OF JANE CLARKE by Sally Gunning

2011-01-01T00:45:00.001-07:00

After she refuses to marry the suitor her father picked for her, Jane Clarke is sent to live with her aunt in Boston, where she witnesses the Boston Massacre, an incident that causes her to reevaluate the conflicts in her own life.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Story behind the book
Author’s Biography

SAVING CEECEE HONEYCUTT by Beth Hoffman

2011-01-01T00:40:00.003-07:00

Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author Interview
Radio Interview
Discussion Guide

THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING by Nancy Pickard

2011-01-01T00:35:00.001-07:00

When she receives the news that Billy Crosby, the man accused of killing her father, is returning home, Jody has to face her past and the secrets that have lain dormant for years.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

TAINTED by Brooke Morgan

2011-01-01T00:30:00.001-07:00

Living a quiet life in Cape Cod with her young daughter, Holly Barrett falls passionately in love with a darkly secretive Englishman who eventually causes Holly to fear that she has brought a monster into her life.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author interview

THE THINGS THAT KEEP US HERE by Carla Buckley

2011-01-01T00:25:00.001-07:00

A virulent pandemic has made the leap across the ocean to America’s heartland. It is killing 50% of those it touches. Ann and Peter Brooks’ failing marriage is not strengthened by scarce food, neighbors who turn against them, or a winter storm that leaves them huddling in the dark.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author interviews
Author biography
Facebook page

THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE by Joseph Boyden

2011-01-01T00:20:00.001-07:00

Watching over her uncle while he remains in a coma, Annie Bird reviews the previous year spent searching for her missing sister. Annie’s remembrances are interspersed with her uncle’s story for a unique look at identity, Native Canadian culture and the nature of love.
Place Hold on Book
Place Hold on Audiobook

Read-a-Likes

Author and wife interview
YouTube interview
Author Interview
Penguin Books Reader’s Guide with discussion questions, author bio and interview

TOUCHED BY AN ALIEN by Gini Koch

2011-01-01T00:15:00.001-07:00

Men in black meets Charlie’s Angels. A fun, romantic, science fiction comedy dealing with reverse stereotypes and save the world action.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author website
Author interview
Author biography
Facebook page
Gini Koch on Twitter

TRULY, MADLY by Heather Webber

2011-01-01T00:10:00.001-07:00

Even though Lucy Valentine lost the family matchmaking skills when a freak accident deprived her of the genetic psychic ability to see auras and replaced it with the power to find lost objects, she reluctantly fills in running the family matchmaking service for her parents. She finds her life calling when a missing wedding ring leads her to a sexy private investigator.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Author’s Blog
Facebook Page
Author Interview

A VINTAGE AFFAIR by Isabel Wolff

2011-01-01T00:05:00.001-07:00

Phoebe Swift, suffering guilt when her closest friend dies unexpectedly, decides to reinvent herself as a vintage clothing store owner/buyer. Her new career brings her friends and lovers who help her grow and develop as a person, and as a result she eventually finds a way to deal with her loss.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website
Youtube Video
Barnes and Noble Video
Novelicous Interview
Other Interesting Sites:
Vintage clothing

WATERMARK: A NOVEL OF THE MIDDLE AGES by Vanitha Sankaran

2011-01-01T00:01:00.002-07:00

Born an albino in Medieval France, Auda loses her tongue at the hands of a superstitious healer's apprentice. Although mute, she learns her father's craft of papermaking as well as reading and writing, making a life for herself, but also bringing the wrath of the Inquisition down on her and her father.
Place Hold on Book

Read-a-Likes

Author’s Website

THE 13TH HOUR by Richard Doetsch

2010-07-01T02:10:00.000-06:00

A tale told in reverse finds an innocent man sitting in jail after being accused of his wife's murder and given an opportunity by a stranger to go back in time to discover what happened, an opportunity that poses a painful dilemma.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author’s Website
Author’s Biography
Book Trailer

Read-a-Likes

THE AFFINITY BRIDGE by George Mann

2010-07-01T02:05:00.000-06:00

Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes, agents of Queen Victoria, battle both physical and supernatural enemies of the crown. They are called in to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot while dealing with a zombie plague in the slums of the capital and attempting to solve a string of strangulations credited to a mysterious glowing policeman.

Reserve Book

Author Bibliography
Reviews
Reviews

Read-a-Likes

BAD THINGS HAPPEN by Harry Dolan

2010-07-01T02:00:00.000-06:00

The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan until he meets Tom Kristoll, editor of the mystery magazine, Gray Streets. Then life becomes more like a mystery story every day.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author Website
Reviews
Read-a-Likes

BOUND SOUTH by Susan White

2010-07-01T01:55:00.000-06:00

Southern domestic fiction with finely drawn characters centering around the relationships in the Parker family, the clash of cultures between the old South and the changing values of the younger generation and the surprising dramas of everyday life.

Reserve Book

Vanity Fair Author Interview
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Article
Discussion Questions/Reading Guide
Publisher’s Author Site
Author Blog
Author Facebook Page

Read-a-Likes

THE BRICK LAYER by Noah Boyd

2010-07-01T01:50:00.001-06:00

Lee Child’s Jack Reacher move over. The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve an extortion plot by a group that is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author Interview

Read-a-Likes

THE CROSSING PLACES by Elly Griffiths

2010-07-01T01:45:00.000-06:00

Archaeologist Ruth Galloway is asked to identify the bones of a child found on a nearby beach. DCI Harry nelson hopes they are the remains of a child missing for 10 years. Instead they are the 2000 year old remains of a child from the Iron Age. As another child goes missing, Ruth is drawn into the new investigation. Great characters and chilling mystery.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Author Biography
Author Interview

Read-a-Likes

DARKBORN by Alison Sinclair

2010-07-01T01:40:00.000-06:00

For the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting until a Darkborn physician helps a pregnant fugitive and finds himself drawn into political intrigues and magical attacks.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Author Biography
Author Interview

Read-a-Likes

THE DAY THE FALLS STOOD STILL by Cathy Buchanan

2010-07-01T01:35:00.000-06:00

Living in 1915 near Niagara Falls, seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who is struggling to cope with the death of her sister and the disgrace of her family, and Tom Cole, whose sixth sense of the river and the falls aids him in daring rescues, are the key players in a transformative love story.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author Website
Author Biography
Reviews
Book Trailer

Interesting sites:
Niagara Falls Today
Niagara Falls History

Read-a-Likes

A FALSE DAWN by Tom Lowe

2010-07-01T01:30:00.000-06:00

Ex-Miami homicide detective and widower Sean O’Brien tries for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. After discovering a beaten, dying woman, he gets sucked back into a dark world.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Book Trailer

Read-a-Likes

THE GLASSBLOWER OF MURANO by Marina Fiorato

2010-07-01T01:25:00.001-06:00

Leonara Mannin goes to Venice to enhance her skill as a glassblower, and learn more about a mysterious ancestor. Switching between modern-day and seventeenth-century Venice, the reader becomes involved in an intriguing mix of history, mystery, art, romance and politics.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Author Biography
Reviews
Author Interview
Author Facebook Page

Read-a-Likes

GODDESS OF THE HUNT by Tessa Dare

2010-07-01T01:25:00.000-06:00

When she practices her seductive wiles on her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, adventurous Lucy Waltham falls in love with him, while he encourages her in order to distract her from her schemes to find a rich husband.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Author Twitter Page
Author Blog
Author Facebook Page

Read-a-Likes

HENRY’S SISTERS by Cathy Lamb

2010-07-01T01:20:00.002-06:00

When Isabelle and Janie Bommarito, hear that their domineering mother is going in for open heart surgery, they must forget the trauma of their childhood and take care of their mother, their demented grandmother, and their handicapped brother, Henry. This finely pitched family melodrama has enough gallows humor and idiosyncratic characters to make it irresistible.

Reserve Book

Author Website
Author Biography
Reviews

Read-a-Likes

HOMER’S ODYSSEY: A FEARLESS FELINE TALE, OR HOW I LEARNED ABOUT LOVE AND LIFE WITH A BLIND WONDER CAT by Gwen Cooper

2010-07-01T01:15:00.000-06:00

The extraordinary story of a blind cat who is a daredevil that can scale seven feet bookcases and jump five feet to catch flies mid-buzz. But it is his love, joy and acceptance that taught his owner the most important lessons in life.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Book Website
Book trailer

Read-a-Likes

JANE BITES BACK by Michael Ford

2010-07-01T01:10:00.000-06:00

Alive and well as a vampire in the modern world, Jane Austen has been living a quiet life and running a bookstore in upstate New York. But that is about to change when her last manuscript is finally going to be published and the man who turned her into a vampire comes back into her life.

Reserve Book

Author Website

Read-a-Likes

THE LAST EMBER by Daniel Levin

2010-07-01T01:05:00.000-06:00

An ancient spy and modern conspiracy comes alive with a plot to steal the past by rewriting history through the destruction of historical artifacts.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author Website
NBR Interview
Book Trailer

Read-a-Likes

THE LOST CITY OF Z by David Grann

2010-07-01T01:00:00.000-06:00

In 1925, British Explorer Percy Fawcett set forth to find the legendary city of Gold, El Dorado or as he named it City of Z. His group consisted of 3 including his son Jack and Jack’s best friend. They were never seen again. David Grann discovered the story 80 years later and embarked on his own search for both the mystery of Fawcett and the lost city of Z. Compelling, fascinating and absorbing.

Reserve Book
Reserve Audiobook

Author Website
Author Biography
Author Interview
Author Facebook Page
Discussion Guide

Interesting Sites
National Geographic Mysteries- El Dorado
Virtual Exploration Society- Percy Fawcett
Possible Brad Pitt Movie

Read-a-Likes